‘Message in a Bottle’ could save your life

Deputy Mayor Councillor Rags Sandhu has been locally promoting a new scheme from Lions Club International that aims to help save lives.

Launching in Bexley later this year, the scheme offers a simple but effective way for you to keep your medical and contact details where they can be found easily and quickly by emergency services - in the fridge.

You simply fill in your information on the supplied form, put it in the bottle and pop it in the fridge. You also receive two stickers (for your front door and your fridge). If emergency services are called to your home, they are trained to look for the stickers, which will alert them to the bottle. www.lionsclubs.co/messsage-ina-bottle

The free bottle packs will shortly be available to residents to pick up from various locations throughout the borough.